I n its decision of Philippe H. Moransais v. Paul S. Heathman, et al., 24 Fla. L. Weekly S308 (Fla. July 1, 1999),1 the Florida Supreme Court held the Economic Loss Rule (ELR) to be inapplicable to negligence actions against engineers and other professionals. This sudden but welcome detour arrived after more than a decade of case law which stretched, sculpted, and misapplied a product liability...

An economic production quantity model with demand dependent unit production cost in fuzzy environment has been developed. Flexibility and reliability consideration are introduced in the production process. The models are developed under fuzzy goal and fuzzy restrictions on budgetary cost. The inventory related costs and other parameters are taken as fuzzy in nature. The problem is solved by par...

A conceptual framework for the probabilistic performance-based seismic assessment of building structures that considers both model uncertainty and response sensitivity to ground motion modification is presented in this paper. A new damage model is proposed for the assessment of building performance to seismic loads. The model is derived at the material level and combined at the element, story a...

Abstract --In this paper, we developed an EOQ model for Weibull deteriorating items with linear demand rate in fuzzy environment. Shortages are allowed and partially backlogged. Holding cost, deterioration cost, ordering cost, shortage cost and opportunity cost are assumed as a triangular fuzzy numbers. The purpose of this paper is to minimize the total cost function in fuzzy environment. Grade...

Health monitoring of world economy is an important issue, especially in a time of profound economic difficulty world-wide. The most important aspect of health monitoring is to accurately predict economic downturns. To gain insights into how economic crises develop, we present two metrics, positive and negative income entropy and distribution analysis, to analyze the collective "spatial" and tem...

One of the main problems in developing countries is to define in quantative terms the major health problems so that preventative and therapeutic measures can be applied. In Pakistan, as in many similar countries, acute febrile diseases account for an enormous amount of morbidity and mortality and also can severely affect the economy. Although in Pakistan some diseases such as malaria have long ...

Drought is a great concern in agricultural production, because it restricts normal plant growth, brings about enormous economic loss and deteriorates ecological environment. Proper use of super absorbent polymers (SAP) is helpful in the agricultural and horticultural industry in arid and semi-arid areas, because SAP can ease the burden of water shortage. Because porosity is one of the most impo...

This paper deals with the problem of determining the economic order quantity for exponentially deteriorating items under the conditions of permissible delay in payments. The delay in payments depends on the quantity ordered. When the order quantity is less than at which the delay in payments is permitted, the payment for the product must be made immediately. Otherwise, the 0xed trade credit per...